Method and apparatus for facilitating toggling between internet and TV broadcasts

A TV-Internet Integration Box for generating at a user's premises an overlay using video signals constituting a first data and overlay-enabling digital data constituting a second data, the TV-Internet Integration Box comprising:

• a combiner unit at a the user's premises coupled to a separate TV tuner box or TV tuner, wherein
• the combiner unit is also connected through distinct networks to each of a video signal source providing video signals through the separate TV tuner box or the TV tuner, and an Internet data source providing overlay-enabling digital data over the Internet, wherein
• said video signals and said overlay-enabling digital data originate from unrelated sources and are transmitted to the user's premises by different resources as mutually distinct and independent inputs, and
• wherein said overlay-enabling digital data includes at least:
• a Web link indicating a website where content that is associated with said overlay-enabling digital data is stored;
• an image indicative of the content associated with said overlay-enabling digital data;
• and
• an overlay activation criterion, wherein
• the combiner unit is responsive to an the overlay activation criterion being met for generating a corresponding overlay, including:
• generating at the user's premises a first display screen including at least a first portion corresponding to said video signals and a second portion overlaid over said first portion and corresponding at least to said image, and
• associating the Web link with said second portion of the first display screen thereby allowing a user to cause the combiner unit to retrieve said content, and generate a second video display screen including at least a portion which corresponds to said content;
• and
• a video output interface, coupled to or integrated within the combiner unit and configured to be coupled to a video input of said TV set and to display said first display screen or said second video display screen.